820067229     

9820067227                        

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Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2015

Online-Ressource (222 p)

Englisch

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figure; Foreword; Map: Fieldwork Research Sites; Part I: Inequalities and Development Discourse; 1. Schooling and Inequality in China; 2. Challenging the Gendered Dimensions of Schooling: The State, NGOs, and Transnational Alliances; Part II. Rural Northwest; 3. Poverty, Health, and Schooling in Rural China; 4. Tibetan Girls' Education: Challenging Prevailing Theory; Part III. Rural Southwest; 5. Rural Classroom Teaching and Nonfarm Jobs in Yunnan

6. Education in Rural Tibet: Development, Problems, and AdaptationsPart IV. Urban Divisions: Migrants and the Middle Class; 7. The Integration of Migrant Children in Beijing Schools; 8. Educational Stratification and the New Middle Class; List of Contributors; Index

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: Education and Social Change in China: Inequality in a Market Economy

978-0-7656-1476-6

978-0-7656-1476-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

978-1-317-47234-6 ( : 211.61 (NL))

LC191.8.C5 E38 2015

306.43/20951     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Electronic books

Education and state ; China ; Congresses ; Education, Rural ; China ; Congresses ; Educational equalization ; China ; Congresses ; Educational sociology ; China ; Congresses ; Electronic books

Market reform, financial decentralization, and economic globalization have greatly accentuated China's social and regional inequalities. Education is expected to address these inequalities in a context of rapid social change, including the rise of an urban middle class, changed status of women, resurgence of ethnic identities, growing rural to urban migration, and lingering poverty in remote areas. But some argue that state policies have not sufficiently addressed inequitable practices, and that schools actually perpetuate and reproduce inequities, giving rise to a new system of social stratif